William F. Martin

This study shows that palladium catalysts in hydrothermal systems oxidize phosphite to phosphate and generate prebiotic phosphorylation products under serpentinizing conditions.

This paper demonstrates that phosphite oxidation catalyzed by palladium generates phosphorylated products under physiologically relevant conditions, suggesting a pathway for the origin of bioenergetics.

This study shows that native nickel can catalyze prebiotic reactions converting 2-oxo acids to 2-hydroxy acids and amino acids without hydrogen or enzymes.

The paper calculates the probability of last-one-out gene distributions under a Markovian loss model and shows gene loss can explain observed patterns resembling horizontal gene transfer.